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Sindhuja Thagirisa

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud-native microservices, and LLM apps

WalmartUniversity of BridgeportRemote, US3 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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LLM/agentic systems practitioner who repeatedly takes customer-facing LLM prototypes into production by operationalizing prompts, hardening RAG pipelines, and adding monitoring/guardrails. Has hands-on experience debugging intermittent production failures under high traffic (vector store timeouts/empty retrieval) and implementing fail-safe behavior plus alerting. Also partners closely with sales in pilots/POCs, customizing demos with customer data and running side-by-side comparisons to drive adoption.

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Key Strengths

  • Turns LLM prototypes into production by decomposing systems (data sources, prompts, workflows) and hardening each component
  • Strong prompt ops: externalized prompts, dynamic templating, multi-prompt strategy, and rollback/version control
  • Production-grade debugging of LLM/agent pipelines using end-to-end logs and step-level instrumentation
  • Root-cause analysis under real traffic conditions (staging vs production discrepancies)
  • Designs safety mechanisms to prevent hallucinated/confident wrong answers when retrieval fails
  • Implements monitoring/alerting (dashboards, Slack alerts, latency/timeout metrics) to catch issues early
  • Customer-centric delivery: acceptance criteria, frequent check-ins, real user query mapping, parallel runs, and UAT with non-technical users
  • Effective pre-sales partner: translates business needs into technical flows, customizes demos/POCs with customer data, communicates trade-offs clearly

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Experience

Software EngineerWalmart · Apr 2024 – Present
Software EngineerTata Consultancy Services (TCS) · Apr 2021 – Aug 2022

Education

University of Bridgeportmaster, Computer Science (2024)
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technologybachelor (2021)

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Certified CloudMicrosoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)DevOps & CI/CD Foundations Certification

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Sindhuja ThagirisaMid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud-native microservices, and LLM apps